MP High Court Orders SBI to Unfreeze Account in Cyber Fraud Case The Madhya Pradesh High Court has delivered significant relief to a woman whose entire bank account had been frozen following a suspicious transaction allegedly linked to cybercrime. The court directe...
DM Salary Attached for Compensation as Allahabad High Court Sets Aside NSA Detention The Allahabad High Court has quashed the preventive detention of Delhi University history graduate Akriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act (NSA), ordering ₹5 lakh in compensation to be recove...
International Crackdown on Sality Botnet, Active for Two Decades, Linked to More Than 11 Million Infected IP Addresses An international law enforcement operation led by authorities in the United States, with support from Europol, has dismantled the Sality peer-to-peer botnet after nearly two decades of illicit activit...
Cyberattack Hits Three Major UK Airports, Personal Data of 8.7 Million People Published Online Personal data belonging to approximately 8.7 million people has been published online following a major cyberattack targeting three of the UK's leading airports. Cybercriminals breached systems belong...
How AI Is Making Financial Scams More Convincing and Difficult to Detect Artificial intelligence is making online financial scams significantly harder to detect, with criminals now using deepfakes, cloned voices, personalised phishing messages, and synthetic identities to ...
AI-Powered Attacks Are Getting Faster, Palo Alto CEO Says Old Defences Won't Be Enough Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has warned that artificial intelligence is forcing companies to fundamentally rethink cybersecurity, estimating that roughly $1 trillion worth of global security in...
Four Held After Malware-Assisted Boss Scam Targets Private Firm Rajasthan Police have arrested four people in connection with an alleged ₹6.80 crore "Boss Scam," a cyber fraud in which criminals allegedly hacked a company's computer system, impersonated its direct...
FBI Investigates Massive Identity Data Leak Linked to Driver's Licence Scans The FBI is reportedly investigating a major identity theft case after digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licences from the United States and Canada were offered for sale on the dark web. ...
Japan Plans AI-Based System to Spot Suspicious Investment Schemes Japan is preparing to use generative artificial intelligence to detect investment fraud earlier, with the country's Consumer Affairs Agency planning to analyse thousands of complaints for warning sign...
Five-Star Kitchens Under Pressure as FSSAI Orders Zero Tolerance Ahead of BRICS Summit The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed major five-star hotels to follow a "zero-tolerance" approach toward food safety violations, ahead of the two-day BRICS Summit in N...
Telangana Legislators Face Tax Evasion Allegations Over Salary Structure The Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has raised concerns over the way salaries and allowances are structured for legislators and other public representatives in Telangana, alleging that the arrangement...
Government Raises Windfall Tax on Petrol and Diesel Exports, Cuts ATF Levy The Indian government has increased the windfall tax on petrol and diesel exports while making a marginal reduction in the levy imposed on aviation turbine fuel (ATF). The revised rates came into effe...